Chapter Summaries

Tian Hao met Dugu Xin and proposed a method to reduce the Jade Phosphorous Serpent’s deadly poison in exchange for lethal toxins. Dugu Xin took him to Dugu Bo at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they heard Dugu Bo roar in pain from a poison flare-up.

• Tian Hao stopped Dugu Xin outside Dugu Bo’s estate and offered methods to address the Jade Phosphorous Serpent’s poison in exchange for potent toxins.
• Dugu Xin explained that the clan could not separate its martial soul’s poison from Soul Power, and Tian Hao suggested using an external poisonous force to suppress and store it in a soul bone.
• Dugu Xin judged the idea promising, pledged his and his father’s support if it worked, and took Tian Hao to Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Xin and Tian Hao passed through Dugu Bo’s poisonous miasma and descended to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• After Dugu Xin rushed toward a cave in response to a pained roar, Tian Hao waited outside and realized Dugu Bo’s poison was acting up.

Tian Hao offered Dugu Bo six ways to address the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Clan’s poisonous martial soul, then recognized Dugu Bo’s emerging poison bead as a possible Soul Core. He advised Dugu Bo to separate the poison from his Soul Power and develop it into a Poison Bead.

• Dugu Bo agreed to prepare deadly poison for Tian Hao, who said he needed it to protect himself in a dangerous prison.
• Tian Hao presented six possible solutions to the clan’s poison problem, including using soul bones, evolving the martial soul, and forming a Soul Core.
• Dugu Bo chose to investigate storing the poison in soul bones, while Tian Hao warned that ordinary soul bones had limited capacity.
• Tian Hao claimed his master was a Titled Douluo and explained that a poison-attributed Soul Core could contain and strengthen Dugu Bo’s poison.
• Dugu Bo revealed that his poison had begun gathering into a bead after he reached level ninety, and Tian Hao identified it as a possible dragon or snake bead.
• Tian Hao advised Dugu Bo to separate the poison from his Soul Power and condense it into a Poison Bead.

Tian Hao explained how Dugu Bo could condense his Poison Bead by separating poison from Soul Power and increasing its purity, then accompanied him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to search for a suitable poison. The chapter ended with Tian Hao proposing that the well’s balancing forces might provide the controllable poison power Dugu Bo needed.

• Tian Hao told Dugu Bo that condensing a Poison Bead could help him withstand the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul’s poison after his ninth soul ring.
• Tian Hao said Dugu Bo could use Mental Power and pure poison to condense the bead, separating poison from Soul Power with a controllable, higher-grade poison.
• Dugu Bo led Tian Hao and Dugu Xin to the medicinal garden, where Tian Hao used his Blue Silver Domain to sense the strange plants.
• Tian Hao encouraged Dugu Bo by predicting that he could develop a poison domain, and Dugu Bo promised him a favor if that happened.
• Tian Hao suggested that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s opposing forces might be a controllable poison suitable for condensing the Poison Bead.

Tian Hao discovered that the Asura God's divine sense was suppressing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its herbs, leading him to reconsider using them and prioritize investigating the god at the City of Slaughter. He collected a root from the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and began studying the herbs’ energy channels, while Dugu Xin offered to show him a plant Dugu Bo had once tried to harvest.

• Tian Hao failed to approach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and asked Dugu Bo for permission to study its herbs, while Dugu Bo began testing the spring water.
• Dugu Bo collapsed after being overwhelmed by the well’s opposing energies, and Tian Hao fused Soul Power with him, entered his Sea of Consciousness, and saw a phantom resembling the Asura God before awakening him.
• Tian Hao studied the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and found the Asura God's phantom suppressing the Ice Fire Dragon Kings’ spirits within it, leading him to suspect the god had placed a backup plan at the well.
• Tian Hao decided to follow the Soul Blood System, investigate the Asura God's intentions at the City of Slaughter, and collect herb roots for cultivation and study.
• Dugu Xin told Tian Hao that Dugu Bo had once tried harvesting a herb, only for its energy to vanish, and Tian Hao asked to inspect that plant.

Tian Hao studied the herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, rescued a withered sacred immortal herb, and helped Dugu Bo condense a Poison Bead. He prepared to enter the City of Slaughter despite Dugu Bo offering to accompany him.

• Tian Hao recognized the withered herb’s sacred medicinal properties, received Dugu Xin’s permission, and carefully dug it up for research.
• Tian Hao spent over a month studying the herbs and found that the Lovesick Heartbreak Red rejected his Soul Power, so he planned to seek the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng instead.
• Dugu Bo separated his poison power from his Soul Power and condensed it into a Poison Bead.
• Dugu Bo gave Tian Hao a bottle of mixed venom and a bottle of opposing Ice Fire Spring waters for his dangerous journey.
• Tian Hao confirmed that he had to go to the City of Slaughter, but declined Dugu Bo’s offer to accompany him because the city’s restrictions would undermine Dugu Bo’s strength.

Tian Hao was struck by a venomous insect planted in his heart and left paralyzed in Sunset Forest after Dugu Xin fled from a Ten Thousand Year Jade Phosphorous Serpent. Unable to move, Tian Hao dragged himself toward a protective pile of soul beast dung, but an unseen creature caught him just before he reached it.

• As Tian Hao and Dugu Xin traveled out of Sunset Forest, Tian Hao discovered that venomous insects had infested his heart, and Dugu Xin identified the attack as one that had begun at least two months earlier.
• Dugu Xin prepared to suppress the insects, but a Ten Thousand Year Jade Phosphorous Serpent appeared, forcing him to flee and leave the paralyzed Tian Hao behind.
• Tian Hao used Soul Power to pull out his infested heart and control his mechanical middle finger, dragging himself toward the nearby dung of a powerful soul beast.
• Just as Tian Hao neared the fresh dung, an unseen creature bit his calf and dragged him away despite his middle finger digging into the earth.
• Dugu Xin escaped Sunset Forest and decided to return to Heaven Dou City to recover and suppress the poison in his own body.

Dugu Bo returned to find Dugu Xin and A Juan dying from the Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison, leaving him with their newborn daughter, Dugu Yan. Meanwhile, Tian Hao was dragged to a mysterious soul beast’s nest and discovered it was a Demon Wolf.

• A Juan tried to suppress Dugu Xin’s poison, but the backlash poisoned her as well.
• Dugu Bo used the Poison Pill to extract poison from Dugu Xin and A Juan, but A Juan died after delivering Dugu Yan, and Dugu Xin soon died too.
• Dugu Bo found poison in Dugu Yan’s blood but judged that it had not yet caused symptoms, then called across Heaven Dou City for a wet nurse.
• Tian Hao was dragged to the soul beast’s nest and recognized the beast as a Demon Wolf.

After being poisoned and abandoned in a den, Tian Hao persuaded a Divine Wind Demon Wolf to spare him while he worked on purging the toxins. As he recovered, a thousand-year Lightning Swift Dragon tracked him to the den, and the wolf returned, leaving him caught between two dangerous soul beasts.

• Tian Hao warned the Divine Wind Demon Wolf that his poisoned blood could poison it, then offered himself as food once he had expelled the toxins.
• The Divine Wind Demon Wolf left Tian Hao alive in its den and went out to hunt, while Tian Hao decided not to flee and continued controlling his blood circulation.
• Tian Hao considered how to replace his damaged heart and wondered whether someone had poisoned him through Teacher Suo Ding.
• After cleansing much of the poison, Tian Hao noticed a thousand-year Lightning Swift Dragon approaching the den.
• The Divine Wind Demon Wolf howled nearby as Tian Hao faced the approaching dragon.

Tian Hao used the Nightmare Soul Bone to evade two Lightning Swift Dragons while fleeing with the Divine Wind Demon Wolf, then fused with the wolf and transformed into a werewolf. He left the dragons trapped in two powerful tornadoes, though their fate remained unresolved.

• Tian Hao used Dream Stealing Space to help the Divine Wind Demon Wolf escape the two pursuing Lightning Swift Dragons.
• While they fled through the night, Tian Hao fused his Soul Power and Grass Root Martial Soul with the Divine Wind Demon Wolf.
• Their fusion transformed the Divine Wind Demon Wolf into a werewolf, and Tian Hao took control of their combined body.
• Tian Hao's wind-blade claws failed to pierce the Lightning Swift Dragons' scales, so he used Dream Stealing Space to mislead them in close combat.
• Tian Hao knocked the dragons into the air and trapped them in two giant whirlwinds that spun them until they became disoriented.

Tian Hao defeated two Lightning Swift Dragons with the Divine Wind Demon Wolf, then used one dragon’s heart in a desperate transplant to keep himself alive. After recovering, he shared a meal of the dragons’ preserved organs with the wolf, strengthening their companionship.

• Tian Hao and the Divine Wind Demon Wolf killed the two unconscious Lightning Swift Dragons by attacking their mouths and throats.
• Tian Hao drank the dragons’ blood and transplanted an undamaged heart into his chest, using lightning-attributed Soul Power to make it beat.
• Tian Hao sealed away the dragons’ Soul Rings and fell into a deep sleep while the Divine Wind Demon Wolf stood watch and ate their bodies.
• Tian Hao woke several days later and found that the wolf had saved the dragons’ internal organs with corpse-preserving grass.
• Tian Hao cooked the organs and shared most of the meal with the Divine Wind Demon Wolf.

Tian Hao studied the Lightning Swift Dragon soul bones, then used Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to develop a weak form of x-ray vision. After discovering that the Divine Wind Demon Wolf faced pursuit from the dragons’ parents, he named it Snow White Clothes and persuaded it to consider joining him in the human world to help advance his soul master–soul beast coexistence system.

• Tian Hao suspected the two Lightning Swift Dragons had emperor bloodlines because both had produced soul bones, and the Divine Wind Demon Wolf confirmed that a Lightning Swift Dragon Emperor might be nearby.
• Tian Hao absorbed the dragons’ preserved soul ring origins into their soul bones and stored them, then used Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew Soul Blood to transform his eyes.
• Tian Hao gained permanent x-ray vision with a range of less than 250 millimeters, but found that absorbing Life Force could gradually extend its range.
• Tian Hao named the Divine Wind Demon Wolf Snow White Clothes and asked it to accompany him to the human world, since the Lightning Swift Dragons’ parents would likely hunt it.
• Tian Hao explained his plan for a cultivation system that would let soul masters and soul beasts coexist without humans taking soul rings, and Snow White Clothes considered following him to help.

Tian Hao brought Snow White Clothes out of Sunset Forest and summoned Meng Yuyan to join him on the way to Suotuo City. He used Phoenix Flame to begin strengthening Meng Yuyan’s Firebird Spear Martial Soul, leaving its future evolution toward a Fire Phoenix Spear underway.

• Tian Hao put a belt around Snow White Clothes’s neck and rode the wolf into a nearby city.
• Tian Hao sent a letter to Meng Yuyan and waited four days for her to arrive.
• Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan set out south toward Suotuo City to practice at the Great Soul Arena and gather information about advanced academies.
• Tian Hao fused Ma Tao’s Soul Blood with Meng Yuyan’s and Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower juice to separate the Phoenix Flame from the evil fire.
• Tian Hao placed portions of the Phoenix Flame-infused Soul Blood into his own rib marrow and Meng Yuyan’s, beginning to evolve her Firebird Spear Martial Soul.

Tian Hao infused Snow White Clothes with Soul Blood mixed with a Wind Attribute immortal herb and optimized its inherited Soul Core Condensation Method using the Star Luo Spirit Pearl as a model. After reaching Suotuo City, he gave Snow White Clothes the improved method and fell asleep from exhaustion.

• Tian Hao infused himself and Snow White Clothes with Soul Blood mixed with juice from a Wind Attribute immortal herb, then advised Snow White Clothes to nourish and strengthen the Soul Blood.
• Tian Hao asked Snow White Clothes to transmit the Divine Wind Demon Wolf Soul Core Condensation Method through their Mental Link.
• Tian Hao compared Snow White Clothes's method with Ah Yin's method and the structure of the Star Luo Spirit Pearl, then revised the technique during their journey.
• Tian Hao gave Snow White Clothes the improved Divine Wind Soul Core Condensation Method upon arriving at Suotuo City and fell asleep on its back.
• Snow White Clothes reviewed the revised method and marveled at Tian Hao's ability, while Meng Yuyan remained unsurprised by his talent.

Tian Hao learned that Yu Xiaogang had published Thousand Core Competencies of Martial Soul and realized the master was taking the blame for theories Tian Hao had supplied, so he arranged a way for Yu Xiaogang to repay the fate Tian Hao had gained. Yu Xiaogang hid in the mountains while powerful soul masters searched for him, and Flender was captured and tortured at Shrek Academy for information about his whereabouts.

• Meng Yuyan told Tian Hao that Yu Xiaogang’s Thousand Core Competencies of Martial Soul had drawn powerful soul masters to Suotuo City and was already banned.
• Tian Hao concluded that Yu Xiaogang had published his old notes under his own name, then arranged an installment plan for Yu Xiaogang to repay the fate Tian Hao had collected.
• Tian Hao decided to stay in Suotuo City and train at the Suo Tuo Great Soul Arena rather than go to Shrek Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang hid deep in the mountains and tried to build a cabin, but Rumbling Sound Cannon’s hop brought it crashing down and injured him.
• Soul masters captured Flender at Shrek Academy and tortured him for information about Yu Xiaogang, while Flender insisted he knew nothing.

At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong discussed the revolutionary Thousand Core Competencies of Martial Soul and the upheaval it could bring. They resolved to visit Suotuo City and investigate its author, while a revealed God Creation Plan led them to suspect the Clear Sky Sect was pursuing a path to godhood.

• Chen Xin and Gu Rong judged the Thousand Core Competencies of Martial Soul to be beyond their ability to evaluate, and Ning Fengzhi considered its theory that divine power could break the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's cultivation limit.
• Gu Rong agreed to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and urged Chen Xin to remain there, while Chen Xin said he needed his father's approval before making any decision about the Battle Soul Sect.
• Chen Xin explained that Rank 98 was the human limit and that Rank 99 marked the first boundary between gods and men; Ning Fengzhi proposed that they travel to Suotuo City to seek the book's author.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that the major factions were suppressing the book's spread and privately questioned the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's motives for publishing it.
• Ning Fengzhi showed Chen Xin and Gu Rong a God Creation Plan that someone had traded him for a twenty-thousand-year power-type Soul Bone, and they suspected it came from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Chen Xin judged that the plan's use of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, Soul Rings, and Soul Bones could plausibly help a Soul Master break through to Rank 99, leaving Ning Fengzhi alarmed by the rising power of the other great sects.

Spirit Hall’s leaders realized that Tian Hao had supplied the core ideas in Yu Xiaogang’s Thousand Core Competencies of Martial Soul and planned to use the controversy to advance their reforms. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang’s publication plunged the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan into turmoil, leaving Yu Yuanzhen isolated and facing mounting losses.

• Qian Daoliu warned Spirit Hall’s elders to treat the book’s theories cautiously before dismissing them from the Elder Hall.
• After activating his Angel Domain, Qian Daoliu explained that Tian Hao had likely written the book’s core and Yu Xiaogang had added the supplementary conjectures.
• Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu planned to let Yu Xiaogang and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan bear the backlash while Spirit Hall pursued reforms and later claimed Tian Hao’s credit.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s elders rejected Yu Yuanzhen as sect master, while their partnerships and businesses collapsed in response to the book.
• Yu Yuanzhen spat blood in grief and disappointment, while Yu Luomian seethed at Yu Xiaogang for endangering the clan.

Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan tried to distance themselves from Yu Xiaogang after his book threatened powerful forces, while the Clear Sky Sect read the tome and misinterpreted the clan’s motives. The chapter ended with Tang Hao deciding to stay away from Ah Yin until he became a Peak Douluo, unaware that reading the book was draining their fortune.

• Yu Luomian refused to release Yu Erlong from the dungeon, and Yu Yuanzhen ordered the clan to seal the mountain for ten years and expel Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Luomian asked about the God Creation Plan, and Yu Yuanzhen warned that their father had told them to beware of the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yu Yuanzhen studied the book his son had sent and grieved over how their relationship had fallen apart.
• Tang Hao accused a little thief of plagiarizing Yu Xiaogang after comparing the tome with the Hundred Great Conjectures he had brought back.
• The Clear Sky First Elder warned Tang Xiao to keep Tang Hao from leaving the sect, while Tang Xiao urged his brother not to act impulsively.
• Tang Hao vowed not to seek Ah Yin until he became a Peak Douluo, as the readers’ fortune continued to drain away.

Tian Hao registered under multiple identities at Suo Tuo Great Soul Arena to gain combat experience, and Steward Ao offered to arrange a hundred-match challenge for him. Tian Hao accepted and waited for the fights to begin, while Meng Yuyan worried about the risks.

• Tian Hao registered as Yue Buqun, claiming a Body Martial Soul and Battle Soul Elder rank, then asked to use several identities to fight more matches.
• Steward Ao agreed to arrange multiple identities on the condition that Tian Hao win every match, and he tested Tian Hao's speed before promising to manage his opponents.
• Tian Hao requested a hundred identities, and Steward Ao proposed a daily challenge in which knocking opponents out of the combat area would count as successful defenses.
• Steward Ao left to prepare the arena challenge, while Tian Hao went to the preparation area with Meng Yuyan and Snow White Clothes.
• Meng Yuyan questioned whether Tian Hao could endure a hundred consecutive fights, but Tian Hao rested while waiting for the challenge to begin.

Tian Hao explained his combat improvements to Meng Yuyan and promised to teach her a technique that spread her soul skills through her whole body. He then learned about Snow White Clothes’ Demon Eye and proposed fusing her wind and ice Soul Powers to suppress it, leaving her doubtful that he could succeed.

• Tian Hao told Meng Yuyan that he had grown strong enough to face Soul Elders and explained the electric arcs around his hands as an unfinished combat technique derived from her soul skills.
• Tian Hao restored the Green Peak Sword’s azure appearance and promised Meng Yuyan he would teach her the technique once he perfected it.
• Tian Hao asked Snow White Clothes about her Demon Eye, and she explained that inherited Demon Blood could drive her into madness and forced her to restrain more than half her strength.
• Snow White Clothes revealed that she had an Ice Snow Mad Wolf bloodline as well as a Divine Wind Demon Wolf bloodline, but kept them separate because their Soul Powers conflicted.
• Tian Hao proposed that Snow White Clothes produce ice-attribute Soul Power so he could try to fuse it with her wind Soul Power after the spirit battle, while she doubted he could succeed.

Tian Hao defended his arena by defeating Niu Dali, then beat a control-type Soul Master with his sword. He left the second match facing a protest that his Green Peak Sword was an illegal high-level Soul Tool.

• Tian Hao let Niu Dali attack first, then redirected the rhinoceros Soul Master's charge and threw him to the ground, forcing him to concede.
• Tian Hao examined Niu Dali's Hoof Stomp and suggested renaming it War Stomp and adapting its vibration into charges and kicks.
• Tian Hao declined his rest period and continued defending the arena.
• Tian Hao evaded a Green Vine Soul Master's control skills, cut through her Vine Shield with the Green Peak Sword, and sent her out of the arena.
• The defeated Soul Master accused Tian Hao of using a high-level Soul Tool, and the host asked him to explain.